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22 hours ago · Her new and enduring identity was boosted by four developments: her arrival coincided with a massive wave of European immigrants, more than 12 million, arriving by steamship from 1892-1924 to the United States through Ellis Island; Emma Lazarus' poem “The New Colossus,” written on her pedestal since 1903, popularized her role as the Mother ...
5 days ago · Photo from Library of Congress. In 1961, actresses Millette Alexander and Louise King, and nightclub entertainer Ted Lewis, stand outside a giant mailbox stamp selling booth in Times Square, New...
5 days ago · The 1896 eastern North America heat wave resulted in over 1,500 deaths, killing more people than the New York City draft riots of 1863 and the Great Chicago Fire combined. Despite its high death...
3 days ago · The 1890 police census was handwritten by officers in a total of 1,008 bound books, of which at least 894 books survived. After completing the initial enumeration of the 24 Assembly Districts that comprised New York City in 1890, city officials checked the census pages against the 1890 federal census. When it was apparent that many names in the ...
- Andy McCarthy
- 2018
3 days ago · Map of New York City's Sixth Ward and Surrounding Areas, 1899. This 1899 map of lower Manhattan includes the intersection of Worth, Baxter, and Park Streets, known as Five Points. Block 160 is marked and shaded.
4 days ago · Before the creation of Greater New York, city leaders dealt with the needs of citizens less than systematically. Administrations in the 19th century created the street grid, regulated the port and immigration, provided water and sewers, authorized transportation lines, and built parks.
4 days ago · In total, by 1880 New York had a German population of 350,000, making at that time the third-largest German-speaking city in the world after Berlin and Vienna. Kleindeutschland. The...
